Using WS-FTP with our servers

WS-FTP is a program that is used to manage the construction of your website. From here you can upload/download files to and from your Virtual Server web space. Once it has been installed you need to configure it. For the purposes of this example we are using WS-FTP.

Once you start WS-FTP you a greeted with a screen which is not considered very helpful or user friendly to the newbie. However, this screen may look complicated, but in fact it is very straight forward and simple once you are used to it.

Profile Name is just the reference name which WS-FTP remembers the profile by and this can really be anything that you like.

Host Name / Address is probably the single most important item on this form, enter your domain name that you have with your account (www.mydomain.co.uk). This is so WS-FTP can locate your virtual server on the Internet.

Host Type is the type of server that you are working with. All our servers are UNIX based (Redhat 5.1) so this must be set to UNIX (standard)

Username & Password is the most obvious of details on the form. Please note that these details are case sensitive.

Once you have set up WS-FTP and clicked OK WS-FTP will display the directory structure on your virtual server on the right hand side and your local machine directory structure on the left. To upload files to your website you will need to change the directory on the remote system. Click the "ChgDir" button and enter "/httpdocs" in the window that appears, then click OK

Now you can transfer files to and from your virtual server by dragging files across or tagging files and using the arrow buttons in the FTP window.

Please make sure that when you transfer HTML files that you select the ASCII protocol, and when you transfer Binary/Image files that you use the Binary protocol.